PROTECTION OF PERSON AND PROPERTY (IRELAND) ACT, 1881—MR. JAMES TUITE, A PRISONER UNDER THE ACT.

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he will state why Mr. James Tuite, T.C. of Mullingar, is detained in prison as a suspect after Mr. William Farrell, J.P. who was arrested at the same time, in the same place, and
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for the same alleged offence, has been set at liberty?

in reply, said, that Mr. Farrell had been released on two grounds. In the first place, three doctors had given their opinion that his state of health was such as to render his imprisonment dangerous; and, in the next place, he was informed that Mr. Farrell had been the dupe of others. Mr. Farrell had been released on condition of his signing a document pledging himself that he would not do any act of violence, or incite others, directly or indirectly, to do such acts, and also acknowledging his liability to arrest in case he failed to comply with the conditions.

said, the reason why Mr. Tuite was not released was that neither of the grounds alleged in the other case were alleged in his. It was neither said the protracted imprisonment would injure his health, nor that he had been the dupe of others.